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Vim <strong>101</strong> Hacks<br />
www.thegeekstuff.com<br />
Chapter 9: Vim Command Line Hacks<br />
You can view all of the available command line options for Vim as shown<br />
below.<br />
$ <strong>vim</strong> –h<br />
Hack 58. Open File in Read Only Mode<br />
Open files in read only mode as shown below using the –R option.<br />
# <strong>vim</strong> -R filename.txt<br />
(or)<br />
# view filename.txt<br />
Get into the habit of using one of the above methods when you don’t intent<br />
to edit a file. This will help you to avoid making any unintentional<br />
modifications to the file.<br />
Hack 59. Recover Swap File Explicitly<br />
Use option –r as shown below to list swap files from current directory, ~/tmp,<br />
/var/tmp, /tmp.<br />
The following command shows all the swap files.<br />
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